Author of The College Football Degenerate's Newsletter @VolumePigs -- Writer @Campus2Canton @Fantrax @playbluechip -- I occasionally appear on @ChasingtheNatty
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Some of these takes will look brilliant next August.
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There used to be so much depth and nuance to college football that I always felt made it a far superior product to the NFL.
Regional teams that had been playing each other for 100+ years, those games having direct effects on recruiting battles, seeing how those recruits developed over 4 years, how when the stars aligned with a special group of recruits it led to all time great seasons for lower level programs that helped elevate their status in the CFB ecosystem.
Everything intertwined to make this deeply rich and interesting sport with nothing else like it.
Now we have a ship of Theseus version of college football that looks more like just a shittier version of the NFL than the sport we watched growing up, and why would anyone watch that when the NFL is available.
The fact that Ohio State would still have a shot to win the national championship with a 24-team field is everything that's wrong with College Football Playoff expansion.
This is a blurb from a spring standouts article posted on my Substack May 3rd recommending people grab Jesse Legree before he was even on Fantrax - Braden Atkinson even got a mention! If you want to get more insights like these to crush your C2C leagues join my Substack below! 👇
Trust me ESPN, if I’m watching South Alabama-Marshall on a Tuesday night, you don’t need to promote this Saturday’s games for me. I know that they’re happening.
They're never going to perennially be a top team in that conference, but I think it's actually one of the few ways Maryland can win more, despite never having a top half talented roster.
Mike Leach used to use the air raid for this very reason... but if they get Legree, this'll prob be the first and last time Maryland has the best player in the conference, and would be their best chance of making that happen with this move
If I'm Maryland I'm pitching to JaMarcus Shepard first and telling him he can bring all his guys over including the local Baltimore kid at WR and just do the same thing he's doing now but with a bigger budget in the B1G
Sources: Maryland coach Mike Locksley has been dismissed. Maryland dropped to 2-5 on Saturday after a last-second loss to Rutgers. Locksley is 39-54 overall at Maryland, including his interim stint in 2015. Maryland is on a bye this week.
The replay booth at the end of the FSU/UM game sounded like they buzzed into a bunch of random guys who were not following the game and had zero context on what they were supposed to review on that play.
A fan led group called Stop24 has launched a website citing academic papers, tv ratings and more to lobby against expansion of the CFP field
It asks to “Keep Saturdays consequential” and shows that 30 of 40 teams ranked 17-24 from 2021-2025 had 3 losses
https://t.co/vOUBtqbcV8